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Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus.

I remember sitting in a crowded cafe near Boston University two months earlier while editing one of the first articles we published on the topic. I was struggling with unfamiliar terms like “novel coronavirus” and double-checking the spelling of “Wuhan.” Even then, the story felt important and a little frightening, yet few could have predicted the power the virus that causes COVID-19 would have to change the world over the next 24 months.

Our team learned along with our readers as we worked with experts to explain emerging science related to the virus and related topics like mRNA technology, Zoom fatigue, the fragility of global supply chains and the importance of grief and joy.

In the past two years, The Conversation’s global network has produced 11,523 articles about the coronavirus. Of those, 1,599 originated with our U.S. newsroom of about 15 editors.

Picking just one piece from that ocean of content is impossible, but I would like to share one of our early pieces – published just two weeks after the discovery of COVID-19 and five weeks before that WHO pandemic declaration. In it, Maciej F. Boni, a Penn State biologist, clearly assesses the scant evidence available that that early stage and poses questions that are still with us today, like: “How much effort should public health officials put into containment, quarantine and isolation activities?”